Brain injuries and neurological system failure are the most common proximate causes of death in children admitted to a pediatric intensive care unit

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 566-571

  Au, Alicia K ^a,b   Carcillo, Joseph A ^a   Clark, Robert S B ^a,b   Bell, Michael J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic illness; Intensive care; Mortality; Neurological injury; Pediatric neurocritical care; Pediatrics

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN HERNIA; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN INJURY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DERMATOMYOSITIS; EPILEPTIC STATE; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FANCONI ANEMIA; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; MORTALITY; NEUROPROTECTION; OMPHALOCELE; OSTEOSARCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SEPSIS;

EID: 80455168185     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: 19473893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PCC.0b013e3181fe3420     Document Type: Article

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